Ash-conveyer



A. GIRTANNER.

ASH CONVEYER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 24, 1919.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 10, 1920,

Application filed October 24, 1919. Serial No. 332,862.

To all whom it may concern: I 1

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER GIRTAN- NER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of New York, State of New York, United States of America, have invented a certain new and useful Ash-Conveyor, of which thefollow-- ing is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. I

My invention relates to an ash conveyor and more particularly to means for positioning the inlet opening of such conveyer.

In the accompanying drawings which show so much of an ash conveyor as is necessary to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is side elevation on a reduced scale. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the intake section, Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line A A-of Fig. 2, Fig.4 is a top plan view of the intake section, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the cover-plate liner.

6, 7, 8, and 9 indicate conduit sections which vary in length by a substantially uniform distance andeach of which is supplied with lugs or flanges 10 through which pass bolts 11 securing the various sections together. The section ,9 is the intake section and is provided with a cover-plate 12 arranged at one side of the center of said section. This cover-plate 12 is secured in position by means of bolts or' screws 13 so that it may be reversed and it is provided with an inlet opening 14 arranged at one side of its center. This openin 14 isprovided with a cover 15 preferably having a handle 16 for removing it from position and replacing it. The cover-plate 12 is provided with a two-part liner 17 having upwardly projecting lugs 18 adapted to engage with the flange of the inlet opening toprevent its 1ongitudinal movement relative to the cover plate.

By reversing the intake section 9, the center of the inlet opening can be shifted from the position shown by the line A-A in Fig. 2 to that indicated by the line AA and by reversing the cover-plate 12 together with its liner 17 two additional positions of the opening may be secured as indicated by the lines B-B and B+B in Fig. 2. The parts should be so proportioned that the, distance between these different positions of the cover plate opening will be uniform and by properly proportioning the differences in length of thesections 6, 7, 8, and 9 any desired position of the cover opening may be secured. For example, by making the distance between the positions of the inlet opening secured by reversing the section 9 and its cover-plate 12 each one and one half inches an adjustment of four and one half inches may be secured. By making the difierence inlength between the sections 6, 7 8, and 9 each six inches, the inlet opening can always be positioned within one and one half inches of the center of the furnace setting without the use of special length of conduit sections.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1'. In an ash conveyer, the combination with an intake section having an adjustable inlet opening, of a plurality of conduit sections differing in length and cooperating with said intake section to position the inlet section.

2. In an ash conveyer, the combination with an intake section having an adjustable inlet opening, of a pluralityof conduit sectionshaving a substantially uniform difference in length and cooperating with said intake section to position the opening.

3. In an ash conveyer, the combination with a reversible intake section, of a coverplate for said section situated atone side of the center thereof, said cover plate being provided with an inlet opening situated at one side of its center.

4. In an ash conveyer, the combination with a reversible intake section of a cover plate for said section situated at one side of the center thereof, said cover-plate being provided with an inlet opening situated at provided With an inlet opening situated at provided with an inlet opening situated at one side'of its center, and a liner for said one side of its center, and a twopart liner cover-plate. for said cover-plate. V 10 6. In an ash conveyer, the combination In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 5 with a reversible intake section, of a coverset my hand and afiixed my seal.

plate for said section situated atone side of the center thereof, said cover-plate being- U ALEXANDER GIRTANNER. [1 s. 

